To ALL NYS Gun Owners!

[tpaw]

New York State

Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc.

P.O. Box 1023 Troy, New York 12181, Phone: 518-272-2654, www.nysrpa.org


Gun Owners of New York State,

As everyone knows microstamping will most likely come to a vote in the NYS Senate prior to adjournment this month. I know you have been calling your NYS Senator and urging that this legislation be defeated since it will do nothing to make the people of New York State more secure only further restrict the legal and lawful gun owners of this state. I appreciate that but the fight is not over and there is more to do. Please call all of the following NYS Senate Republican Senate leaders and urge them to hold their conference together and make sure their members all vote NO ON MICROSTAMPING.

Those Senators and their positions are:

Senator Dean G. Skelos, Minority Leader, PH: 518-455-3171, [email protected]

Thomas W. Libous, Asst Minority Leader, PH: 518-455-2677, [email protected]

Vincent L. Leibell, Asst Minority Leader, PH: 518-455-2677, [email protected]

Owen H. Johnson, Asst Minority Leader, PH: 518-455-3411, [email protected]

Thomas P. Morahan, Chair, Minority Policy, PH: 518-455-3261, [email protected]

William J. Larkin, Minority Whip, PH: 518-455-2770, [email protected]

Michael F. Nozzolio, Asst Minority Whip, PH: 518-455-2366, [email protected]

Kenneth P. LaValle, Chair, Minority Conference, PH: 518-455-3121, [email protected]

Remember, emails are good but calls are better, let’s show the leadership how we feel and explain in a polite manner that their jobs are dependent on us. Light up the Switchboard

 

[wishin]

Please explain; what's microstamping and what does it entail?

 

[meytind]

Basically, the idea is that all pistols would have to imprint a unique code from the firing pin and breach face onto every chambered cartridge. Theoretically, when cops find spent casings at a crime scene, they would automatically know which pistol fired the rounds.

Now in the real world: the technology doesn't yet exist in a reliable format. Criminals can simply pick up spent shell casings and/or deface the firing pin with a small file. They could use revolvers instead of autos. They could buy older autos that don't have the technology in them. Also, like all internal parts of autos, eventually the marks would warp and change as the pistol was fired throughout its service life. Also, after a serious crime like a murder, criminals will simply dump the guns like they do now, leaving no trail.

In the end, it's another feel good law that would do absolutely nothing to actually stop crime. This is worse than normal though because, since the technology doesn't actually exist, it would be a de facto ban on new semi automatic pistols for the state of NY. The prices of pre-microstamping pistols would skyrocket. Law abiding gun owners in NY would be shafted. Criminals would be unaffected. Millions of dollars of tax payer money would be wasted.